⁴ Do all these evildoers know nothing?^(A)

They devour my people^(B) as though eating bread;
    they never call on the Lord.^(C)

²² “My people are fools;^(A)
    they do not know me.^(B)
They are senseless children;
    they have no understanding.^(C)
They are skilled in doing evil;^(D)
    they know not how to do good.”^(E)

⁷ There are those who turn justice into bitterness^(A)
    and cast righteousness^(B) to the ground.^(C)

¹² Do horses run on the rocky crags?
    Does one plow the sea^[a] with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison^(A)
    and the fruit of righteousness^(B) into bitterness^(C)—